[ghaff]

Why not? Yes, to the sibling comment, there's the potential issue of pay adjustments that may (or may not) leave employees better off. But, in general, some percentage of employees do seem to want full remote and the majority want to work from home at least half the time. I agree that it's a negative for people who want to go back to an in-person office most days before time. But I assume that there will be many companies that lean in that direction.

[samr71]

These all potentially could or could not happen, but I think they're possible given multi-year mass WFT. I'm not guaranteeing these, but I've seen them discussed.

For the company: - Lower productivity (burnout, people not adequately connected, people not on same page, more difficult to manager remote workers, more distractions) - Less innovation - Less / No company culture - Less employee satisfaction; harder to recruit at all WFT firms - Difficulty onboarding new employees

For employees: - Competing with talent globally, lower wages - Fewer perks - Less community, more atomization

[ghaff]

I was mostly responding to "I'd argue it certainly won't be great for the average worker"

Many of us were working remotely before the current situation. I guess that makes me not average. But many people are saying they're looking forward to not going back to a commute every day even if they stay in the same general area and maybe go in a day or two a week for collaboration/meetings. The big negative for me has been working remotely during a pandemic with my usual 100 or so days of travel curtailed.